Tianjin Offshore Engineering's special equipment branch published the bid result for valves for the new compressor project at the Gaolan terminal. The winning valve supplier is not named in the notice.

Hubei Energy's Jiangling Power Plant phase II expansion has published a shortlist for air compressor, aftertreatment and gas storage tank equipment, with Wuhan Yidatong Technology ranked first at a bid of 3,868,400 yuan.

Shandong Fuchuda Pharmaceutical Group announced winners of its corrugated packaging box tender in several lots, including Xuqi (Shandong) Packaging, Shandong Yehua Paper Products Packaging and others. The award notice was published on September 5, 2024.

Atlas Copco Group completed its acquisition of the equity of Anhui NOY Technology Co., Ltd. on September 3, 2024, after agreeing to the deal in July 2024. NOY will become part of Atlas Copco's Scientific Vacuum Division.

Shanghai Baosteel Packaging Co. announced a total investment of about 452 million yuan to build an intelligent two-piece can production base in Tongan district, Xiamen, Fujian, with a design capacity of 1.1 billion cans per year. The project will be executed through a new subsidiary, Xiamen Baosteel Can Making Co., and takes about 16 months to build.

Carlsberg Group opened its 27th production base in China in Sanshui district of Foshan, Guangdong, on Wednesday after a 2.96 billion yuan investment. The brewery has two bottling lines and canning and kegging lines.

Norway-based TMC Compressors won a contract from Dalian Shipbuilding Industry to supply complete marine compressed air systems for three 175,000-cbm LNG carriers being built for China Energy Shipping Investment. The contract value was not disclosed and the equipment will be made in Europe.

Danish firm Svanehøj was awarded a subcontract by SunRui Marine Environment Engineering to supply 32 deepwell NH3 fuel pumps for the first eight 210,000 DWT ammonia-fueled bulk carriers being built at CSSC Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding, with the first delivery in Q4 2024.

Sewis Pump Valve Manufacturing (Zhejiang) started construction on a 350 million yuan project in Haiyan Economic Development Zone to produce 100,000 sets per year of ship, ultra-low-temperature and hydrogen-energy valves, expected to start production in March 2026.

BNM (Zhejiang Bosun New Materials) held a groundbreaking for a new factory in Yueqing's Shanhuan New Park with a planned investment of about 200 million yuan, expected to be completed by end-2025 and create over 300 jobs.

Johnson Controls unveiled its global manufacturing center for York M multistage centrifugal compressors at its Wuxi factory in China, announced August 15, 2024.

A Chinese tank container valve maker's subsidiary is building a new 36.2 mu, roughly 22,000 square meter plant in Rudong, Jiangsu for high-end stainless steel valves, with investment of 500 million yuan. Main structure was topped out on June 24, 2024, and the plant is expected to produce 60,000 pieces per year.

Rizhao Yulan New Material is opening a new tinplate mill close to the port of Qingdao, with an investment of RMB 3.3 billion (US$454 million).

Jiaxing Gaxi Bera Compressor plans to build two refrigerator compressor production lines at its existing Wangdian site in Jiaxing, adding 6 million units a year, under a CNY 105.65 million investment. The local environmental authority published its draft environmental approval notice on 18 July 2024.

Shandong Furuida Pharmaceutical Group awarded contracts for pharmaceutical composite films (lot 1) and bags (lot 2) to several Chinese packaging suppliers, as announced on 17 July 2024 under tender number lszb202405270821.

Chaoda Valve is building an 8,000-tonne-per-year high-end smart pump and valve plant in Oubei, Yongjia, Wenzhou, with total investment of CNY 560 million. Civil construction had passed 60% by July 2024 and is expected to finish by year end.

Atlas Copco has signed a deal to acquire Anhui NOY Technologies, a China-based manufacturer of vacuum helium leak detectors, which will join its Scientific Vacuum division within Vacuum Technique. No deal value was disclosed.

Xi'an Jingxi Shuangding Pharmaceutical published the tender result for its carton packaging project, splitting the award 70% and 30%. Xi'an Zhentao Packaging Materials won the 30% share with a bid of about 19.13 million yuan.

Brunvoll signed a contract with COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry Zhoushan to deliver propulsion and manoeuvring packages for three shuttle tankers for Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers, with an option for one more vessel. The contract value is undisclosed but reported to be several hundred million Norwegian kroner.

Dawn Group held a groundbreaking on July 1, 2024 for a high-end stainless steel pump and valve intelligent manufacturing project in Longkou, run by its joint venture Dawn Precision Intelligent Company. The planned investment is CNY 522 million and the project is due to reach full capacity by January 2026.

Daowen Group and Yantai Longgang Pump held a groundbreaking ceremony on 1 July 2024 for a stainless steel pump and valve intelligent manufacturing project in Longkou. The project has a planned investment of CNY 522 million and is expected to produce 27,000 tons of stainless steel castings a year.

Brunvoll signed a contract with Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry Zhoushan to deliver propulsion and manoeuvring packages for three shuttle tankers for Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers, with an optional fourth vessel. Contract value is undisclosed but reported to be several hundred million NOK.

Changzhou Power Station Auxiliary Equipment Co. broke ground on a 50,000-set-per-year high-end valve control system plant on a 79-mu site in the Wujin National High-tech Zone, Changzhou, at a ceremony on June 13, 2024.

Ourjin (002701.SZ) plans a voluntary conditional cash general offer at HK$7.21 per share to acquire all issued shares of COFCO Packaging (00906), with total consideration capped at HK$6.066 billion (about RMB 5.524 billion). The offer is backed by an irrevocable commitment from shareholder Zhang Wei holding about 22% of the target.

Shijiazhuang Zhonghui Pharmaceutical Packaging was named winning bidder for a food-grade high-density polyethylene bottle project of Shandong Furuida Pharmaceutical Group. The tender notice was published on 5 June 2024.

Jiangheng Valve won a contract to supply valves for the storage, transport, power, gas, ethylene glycol and split-utilization engineering project of Shaanxi Coal Group's Yulin Chemical Co. in Yulin, Shaanxi, China. The announcement was made on 2024-06-03. No contract value was disclosed.

Jiang Heng Valve won a valve procurement contract worth 1.435175 million yuan for projects at Shaanxi Coal Group's Yulin Chemical plant.

Jiang Heng Valve won a valve procurement contract worth 1.435175 million yuan for storage, power, gas, ethylene glycol and waste utilization projects at Shaanxi Coal Group's Yulin Chemical plant.

Hubei Energy Group Jiangling Power Generation published candidate bidders for butterfly valves and transmission joints for the circulating water system of its Jiangling power plant phase II expansion. Xiamen Furite Fluid Control ranked first with a bid of 3.63 million yuan.

Anhui Hongsifang Co. published the result of its tender for acetylene mixed-gas compressor units for its 5,000 t/yr NVP expansion project, awarding the order to Jiangyin Keyi Compressor Co. The notice is dated 24 May 2024.

Swire Coca-Cola started building a CNY1.3 billion (USD180 million) smart, green bottling factory in Guangzhou with 11 beverage production lines, expected to raise its Greater Bay Area capacity by about 66%.

Dalian Roy Pump won the contract to supply equipment for the 700,000-tonne/year pyrolysis gasoline hydrogenation complex at North Huajin United Petrochemical's Fine Chemicals and Feedstock Project in China.

Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen is expanding production at its Suzhou site near Shanghai, adding VACUTAP tap-changer capacity available from July 2024 to shorten delivery times in China.

WIVO Valves announced a large-scale expansion of its production line in Qingdao, adding CNC machines, automated assembly lines and several thousand square meters of workshops. The company expects annual output to rise by over 30%. The announcement is dated May 13, 2024.

Sichuan Flyger's valve plant in Ziyang High-Tech Zone has topped out, with completion expected by end of May 2024 and full handover in June; initial investment is 60 million yuan and output is expected to reach 80 million yuan this year.

AFA Fluid Control completed the concrete pour and topping out of its phase three project, a 35 million yuan facility for 1,000 large-diameter hard-seal ball valves per year, on April 30, 2024. The project started on March 8, 2024.

Zigong Dongfang General Compressor ranked first among shortlisted bidders for a CNOOC Zhanjiang reciprocating compressor tender for the Weizhou oilfield group, with a bid of CNY 5,760,000 including VAT. The shortlist was published on 26 April 2024 for public comment until 29 April.

Xinlei Compressor plans a future factory in the eastern new district of Wenling, Zhejiang, with total investment of about 1.2 billion yuan, to produce 800,000 small air compressors, 65,000 screw compressors, 3,000 centrifugal blowers and heat pump units annually.

Bericap invested in a production facility in China, according to a brief industry roundup. No amount, capacity or site details were given.

Guangxi China Tobacco Industrial awarded its 2023-2025 supply contract for Liqun (long nozzle) brand carton and box packaging paper, with the result announced April 7, 2024. Guangxi Zhenlong Color Printing Packaging was the first-ranked bidder, with Tongxiang Printing second and Changchun Jilong as reserve.

Interpump Group, via subsidiary Inoxpa SAU, acquired a 60% equity interest in Process Partners China Co Ltd and raised its stake in YRP (Shanghai) Flow Technology to 60%.

Sinopec Oilfield Equipment Corporation won the bid for a diaphragm hydrogen compressor project serving high-purity hydrogen storage and transport in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, its second such commercial order.

Xiamen Tongchangshun Printing & Packing has been appointed a packaging supplier for Signify, producing Signify packaging for its factories in China and worldwide after passing audit and colour management tests.

Grundfos opened its advanced manufacturing plant in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, China, on March 21, 2024. The roughly $100 million, 35,000 square meter facility began production three months before the official launch.

Taiyuan Heavy Industry's Yuci hydraulic subsidiary is adding engineering-machinery pump, valve and oil-pump production lines to existing plants in Yuci District, Jinzhong, Shanxi, with 181.25 million yuan of investment. The project targets annual output of 655,000 pump and valve units and 1 billion yuan in sales, with construction planned for 2024 Q2 to 2025 Q4.

A subsidiary of Shenzhen Bai Xing Long Creative Packaging, Shanxi Jiajiazhuang Bai Xing Long Creative Packaging, was selected as a candidate supplier for packaging materials such as boxes, cartons and handbags for Shanxi Xinghuacun Fenjiu Distillery. The report was published on March 19, 2024, and no value was given.

Jiangsu Ruixiang Chemical's 1.2 Mt/a high-salt wastewater recovery project in Yizheng published a bid ranking for chlorine gas compressor units, with Yangzhou Jiuzhou Pump Co. first at RMB 5.79 million with delivery six months after signing.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held for Bipu Perolo Jiangsu Engineering Technology's high-end valve project in Rudong Economic Development Zone, Jiangsu, on a 36.2-acre site with 29,390 sqm of plant space, targeting 60,000 pieces of stainless steel valves annually.

BERICAP is investing in a new plant in Kunshan near Shanghai that will increase its production capacity by 50%. Production is planned to start in 2027, and the investment amount was not disclosed.

HANSEN signed a framework agreement on March 12, 2024 with the Nantong High-tech Zone government in Jiangsu to set up a manufacturing plant. The plant is in fitting-out, with production and shipments expected in the third quarter of 2024, starting with 52 bar valves for refrigeration.